Investigations into alleged reports of bribery against workers and security personnel of GCB bank by DKM customers are expected to be completed on Friday 27th January, 2017. The police, upon request from the Registrar General’s Department, who are official liquidators of DKM micro finance company, early this month begun investigations into the matter. “Some of … Read more
Rolls-Royce has agreed to pay £671m to settle bribery and corruption cases with UK and US regulators. The aerospace firm is set to pay £497m plus costs to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which started investigating claims in 2012 of wrongdoing overseas. At the time, the SFO asked the firm for information about possible bribery … Read more
Some Ministers of State paid bribes to Members of Parliament’s vetting committee in 2011, to pass them during vetting after their nomination for ministerial appointment under President John Atta-Mills. Anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu, in one of his series of statements issued on Monday January 10, recounted the late President Mills telling him about some ministers … Read more
Brazil’s biggest construction firm, Odebrecht, has admitted in the US to bribing officials to secure contracts. The company and Brazilian petrochemical firm, Braskem, have agreed to pay at least $3.5bn (£2.8bn) to the authorities in the US, Brazil and Switzerland. The US Justice Department said it was the largest foreign bribery case yet. Odebrecht will … Read more
President Mahama and his NDC government corrupt practices have resulted in excessive public spending, less efficient tax system , needless high public deficit and destabilization of national budgets, heightened capital flight and the creation of perverse incentives that stimulate income-seeking rather than productive activities. “When public money is stolen for private gain, it means fewer … Read more
A Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who has been accused of amassing wealth for himself within a short period in government, says he has not taken bribe before and vowed never to take one in his lifetime. Responding to allegations against him on Accra-based Onua FM Tuesday, he said: “it is sad the … Read more
Responding to allegations against him on Accra-based Onua FM Tuesday, he said: “it is sad the way people can say things against others without considering the person they are scandalizing, or even their family. “I was accused of owning a filing station, took bribe to include particular Polytechnics to be converted into Technical Universities etc, … Read more
Ghanaian businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has denied ever taking or offering a bribe in the course of his business activities in the country. He said he is a genuine businessman and has conducted his businesses diligently, and must therefore not be accused of fraud. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Friday, November 18, he … Read more
Businessman, Alfred Woyome is confident the state will pay him a lot more cedis, if the court brings finality to the controversial GHS 51.2 million judgment debt case he’s been contending with in court for many years. “I’m envisaging that before this case ends Ghana is going to pay a lot of money to me, … Read more
Ghana, a well-endowed country, has been brought to its knees and has been reduced to borrowing and begging from foreign creditors and donors to finance even its most mundane development needs. Corruption is what has brought this shame upon itself. Corruption holds back economic growth, increases cost of doing business, reduces revenue to the state, … Read more
It is quite bizarre that President Mahama does not seem to be fretted over the numerous bribery and corruption allegations that have been levelled against him. Apparently, the idiosyncratic allegations include, inter alia, ‘the furtive gift (the Ford Expedition)by the Burkinabe Contractor, Djibril Kanazoe; the Embraer 190 scandal; Armajaro; the STX Housing deal ; SADA; … Read more
The New Patriotic Party says the report released by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on the Mahama Ford saga was incurably flawed and a failed attempt to cover up for a president caught red handed for receiving a bribe. The NPP in reacting to the report issued by CHRAJ on the … Read more
Former boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has cast doubt over claims that the current commissioner exonerated President John Mahama on the Ford gift saga to protect his job. The youth wing of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and an individual petitioned the state’s human rights institution … Read more
The largest opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP), insists that the Ford vehicle gift President John Mahama received from a Burkinabe contractor constitutes a bribe or kickback by every description. According to the party, a report by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) which cleared the president of bribery and conflict of … Read more
Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party says an investigation by the Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice into President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford gift vehicle was carelessly and unprofessionally done. Nana Akomea said the facts of the matter relating to the collection of the gift clearly show that the president received a … Read more
Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party says an investigation by the Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice into President Mahama’s acceptance of a Ford gift vehicle was carelessly and unprofessionally done. Nana Akomea said the facts of the matter relating to the collection of the gift clearly show that the president received a … Read more
Minority Leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu says he is scandalised that the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) report failed to establish conflict of interest allegations against the president in the controversial gift saga. He believes CHRAJ just took President John Mahama’s response to the allegations, hook, line and sinker and reproduced a conclusion … Read more
Former boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short says the Commission’s decision to clear President John Dramani Mahama of any fault in the Ford Expedition gift saga is problematic. According to the former Commissioner, the decision is questionable as it is likely to send the wrong signal to … Read more
Ernesto Yeboah, a youth leader of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), who initiated the petition that compelled the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate President Mahama’s receipt of the Ford gift from a Burkinabe contractor, says the outcome of the probe clearly shows that the President cannot be trusted to protect … Read more
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has said its investigations into bribery and conflict of interest allegations brought against President John Mahama in connection with his acceptance of a Ford Expedition gift does not only exonerate the president but also brings closure to the matter. After close to four months of what … Read more